Grandpa Henry

In Walter Price’s article on Agnes de Mille, he quotes her as saying that her grandfather always said that the Irish situation boiled down to “the possession of the land by the English and the Irish” and that “the big absentee landlords controlled everything” (“De Mille--An American Original Returns to ABT,” Feb. 28).

Price could have added that Agnes de Mille’s grandfather was the American political economist Henry George, whose major book, “Progress and Poverty,” was translated into 14 languages and sold 4 million copies.

Inasmuch as George’s proposals for land reform through taxation of land values and exemption of homes and structures have been adopted in part by such diverse nations as Denmark and Taiwan, as an alternative to Marxism, I think he deserves at least an identification.

STANLEY M. SAPIRO

Malibu